Tuesday, September 9, 2014

The Time to Oppose War Is Now

February 15, 2003, saw the biggest public demonstrations against war
(or for anything else) in history. The U.S.-led illegal and immoral war
on Iraq went from bad to worse for 8 years.

In recent months, the United States has started it back up; last week
NATO "leaders" made plans; and this week President Obama will announce a
new war on Iraq.

With 145 airstrikes in the past month and over 1,100 U.S. troops on the ground already,
President Obama plans to tell us that just three more years of
escalation will make right what 24 years of wars and bombings and
sanctions have left in ruins. Three years of bombing will, he says,
destroy what has been created by and continues to be empowered by the
bombing.

Add to this portrait of insanity, the ongoing war in
Afghanistan, the U.S. missile strikes in Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen,
the expansion throughout Africa and Asia, and the continued
aggressiveness toward Russia as NATO seeks to expand still further
eastward and two nations struggling under the weight of nuclear
stockpiles are put into conflict.

Observers have called thisthe most dangerous moment since World War II.

We call this a moment to oppose, not only each of the numerous wars and
rumors of wars, but to reject the idea that conflicts must be handled
by either bombing people or doing nothing.